Farron Cousins lets us know here about Anna Paulina Luna-tic using Claude AI to write an amendment to legislation, presumably because doing the work she was elected to do (along with her staffers) was apparently too much of a hardship...the giveaway was leaving the AI prompt used by Claude in the draft of the legislation – just say “oops” and get out (and I LOVE the completely grown-up explanation of “Oh yeah? Well, EVERYBODY ELSE is doing it,” which I also don’t believe along with Cousins)...oh, and the amendment she either did or didn’t use Claude to draft had to do with sending our military to the southern border, so there’s that level of idiocy also...
...and on that subject, J.T. Cestkowski of Status Coup tells us that Ford was forced to hire back 300 engineers who were fired to make room for AI, which failed to match quality checks (the rehired engineers will “train up” AI and younger workers)...looks like Ford workers were forced to accept the same wage they would get for slinging burgers based on that on-the-ground interview...”AI will leave a lot of white-collar people behind,” according to Ford’s CEO, revealing the dirty little secret no one in corporate leadership wants to acknowledge...not surprised to hear that Ford had to issue the most recalls of all carmakers; I once owned a Ford, and I’ll never make that mistake again...
...and I guess these first three clips have a bit of a theme, and in keeping with that, John Iadarola tells us about more and more opposition to data centers, including in Virginia...I could probably include clips on this subject every day if I wanted to...looks like our oh-so-august-in-their-imaginations tech overlords are starting to get a hint on how fed up people are with these monstrosities...part of me wonders what the hell some of these damn Republican voters were thinking when they cast their ballots for Cheetoh Hitler and the “R” team, but on the other hand, it’s more important to find a way to work together with these folks and try to bring an end to this “divide and conquer” BS from the one percent...and I don’t know who this Texas knucklehead is who’s prattling on about “drone warfare,” but if he thinks that’s a plausible reason to sink people’s retirement funds into these damn data centers, then he’s got more than a single screw loose (and “tech extremism” is indeed right out of the idiotic Trumpist playbook, assuming anybody knows what that actually means)...
...also, the “Logical Leftist” Jeff Waldorf gives us an update on Target killing their DEI initiatives to try and placate Combover Caligula, and by at least one measure, it ended up costing the company about $12 billion...also, the NY state pension fund (which held Target shares for its pensioners) issued a no confidence vote against former Target CEO Brian Cornell in response (a boycott by Georgia pastor Jamaal Bryant was the primary push-back against getting rid of the DEI initiatives)...I have to admit that I’ve never heard the term “rainbow capitalism” before...I thought this breakdown was pretty good in talking about how the shareholders treated the DEI matter versus how the customers treated it (mattered to the latter group but not the former, which is why gutting the initiatives blew up in Target’s metaphorical face)...
...and Trae Crowder gives us an update on the madness with the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool – I hadn’t seen that pic of the guy whose job it was to clean the pool, but he does indeed look like he just walked off a soundstage with Mumbles, Flat Top and Tess Trueheart (Dick Tracy refs, BTW)...also, I really could care less about the FIFA World Cup, partly because the head of that org has sucked up to Cheetoh Benito so shamelessly (though I agree with Crowder’s sentiment that the overall World Cup experience has been positive for this country because our *preznit has decided to keep his tiny, ketchup-stained hands out of it, so far)...I’d also heard about the infatuation with ranch dressing by those World Cup fans arriving on our shores, as well as the Scottish fans drinking Boston pubs dry except for Bud Light, which is pretty damn funny IMO (NSFW/H)...
...and I now give you today's regional weather forecast.
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